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Probably the Drow Plate Mail +5 (although it's quite limited ) or the Boots of Phasing (which has to be cheated, because Bioware removed them from the game).

By the way, did anyone find a way to protect the Drow equipment? How about throwing it inside a Bag of Holding?

The description of the cloak of mirroring specifically says that it only affects spell damage, but it doesn't work like that for me either. I have had Beholders petrify themselves with it and I definitely didn't have any spell turning up or the shield of Balduran. Just a game screw-up, I guess.

My favourite item would have to be the cloak of mirroring. I do a lot of important battles with my main character alone, and it sure makes them easier.
PS Daystar is still the best longsword I've found. Has anyone seen a better one?

euhhh....perhaps blackrazor, sword of balduran and the dragonslayer.

Well, it's not the "best" item by any shot, but I think that the Warblade +4 is great from a role-playing point of view. I used it in my first game, where I played Half-orc Barbarian. That race and class combination is supposed to be naturally suspicious of magic, so all these weapons with lots of magical bells and whistles didn't seem right for him. When I ran across the warblade it struck me as the perfect weapon for my man. Between poor charisma and VERY poor reputation, I paid an arm and leg for it, but it really had to be mine.

+4 Thac0, 1d12+4 slashing damage, great speed factor for a 2-handed sword. Badass piece of metal.

i will say that its the Carsomyr blade as my personal preference..rocks with a paladin!

with that and the book of infinite spells set to true seeing, you can turn a cavalier into an inquisitor

about the beholder spell casting time that bill was talking about. if you read the manual you will see that elminster says that beholders have "spell like" abilities so they are not actually casting spells they are using abilities thats why they cast so quickly

each of the beholder's eyestalks is capable of throwing spell.

the most common being

disintegrate
flesh to stone
death spell
cause serious wounds

the smaller gauths only got
cause serious wounds

where elder orbs can cast
imprisonement

and i think power word kill..the unseeing eye casts it

In some older RPGs,beholders were deadly opponents.There were also an undead version of them called "Death tyrants".Every party which stood before them,should make its prayers,not to kill him but to escape with a few party members dead.The latter was the "good" outcome,the bad was the message "All your party members have been killed".
In Eye of the Beholder,there was only one beholder,called Xanathar-he was the final opponent.He was the cause for the evil which was gathered under Waterdeep,and your mission was to find out was happening.You could killed him following a standard tactic (as Jan could say).
In Eye of the Beholder 2 there were many beholders.In one particular situation there was a trap with two of them surrounding your party-difficult battle,many reloads.They use the same range of spells-disintegrate,death spell,flesh to stone,finger of death etc.The hard part was that your party didn't have any protection spells like death ward etc.In Eye 3 there were no beholders,despite what the name implied.
The idea of mirror deflection of spells is old-in Eye 2 your party used some mirror-like shields to reflect the gaze of medousas and avoid petrification.
By the way,i saw a film trailer of the upcoming movie "Dungeons & Dragons" and my eye caught a beholder in one scene.Could his name be Xanathar junior ?

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There's a significant difference between Beholders and Evil Eyes in BG II.

Whereas the cloak of mirroring will return ANY damaging effects (projectile or direct damage), it will not deal with other effects, like charm, and fear effects.

Beholders and Gauths cast projectiles and since they almost all seem to be damaging (except for charm, hold person, dispel, etc... which they shoot at you as well!), they are reflected back.

Evil Eyes, on the other hand, really cast spells. You can hear them making the incantations, see the pre-release effects of the spells, and such. They're really just spellcasters like any other mage you encounter in the game. Damaging spells are reflected back at the creature, but since Imprisonment is not a damage spell, your character will suffer the effects of this particular spell.

Whether or not they cast them is pure luck. Of course, the longer they remain alive, the bigger the chance their next spell will be an Imprisonment. Therefor, whenever I face such creatures, I primarily go for the Evil Eyes FIRST.

By the way, did anybody notice that Gauths, in contrary to their bigger brothers, can do a physical attack? A few days ago, a Beholder fired a hold person on my main character (with the cloak), and the Gauths nearly beat him to death with a PHYSICAL attack!